Tonart: C major
Verse 1
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C
G
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Dm
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Are
we
gonna feed the hungry people?
G
F
Are we gonna stand and smile?
C
Are we gonna take in the homeless?
G
F
Are we gonna stand and criticize?
C
Are we gonna love one another?
G
F
Are we gonna trade each other's rights?
next door neighbors
G
F
Even though they may be black or white?
for the South African people?
Oh, they've been suffering for so long
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Am
C
Are we gonna feed the hungry people?
G
F
Are we gonna stand there and smile?
C
Are we gonna take in the hopeless?
G
F
Are we gonna stand and criticize?
C
Are we gonna love one another?
G
F
Are we gonna treat each other right?
next -door neighbor?
G
F
Even though they may be black or white
For Nelson Mandela
Whoa, he's been in jail most of his life
Stand up
C
Oh, for his most courageous wife
C
Both of you and your lackeys
Dm
C
F
So in South Africa,
C
F
all of you are going to hell, oh yeah.
C
Your nights will be filled with bad dreams,
F
your days filled with pain.
C
Are you going to stand up
for the Vietnam veterans?
G
Are you going to stand up
for the abused children?
F
Are you going to stand up?
C
Dm
C
Yeah.
A government that teaches
C
F
teaches it s people to lie, oh yeah.
C
A government that doesn't care
F
about all of its people,
C
cares about none of its people,
C
Are you going to stand up
for the middle passage,
G
are you going to stand up for
Whoa, for the holocaust
F
Are you gonna stand up?
Stand up!
Testify!
C
When the American Indians
F
found Christopher Columbus
C
There was over 14 million Indians here
F
C
But most of them were killed
F
By the hands of the man
Oh yeah!
F
C
Are you gonna stand up
for the so -called American dream?
G
Are you gonna stand up?
Oh, it's gonna turn out to be a nightmare
F
Are you gonna stand up?
C
Dm
Yeah, oh, and testify
C
F
They took almost all the land
C
Put some of the Indians on reservations
Now we all know it's wrong
Dm
F
C
But until this day,
F
there's been very few people
C
who have stood up to make it right.
F
C
Oh yeah. Are you gonna stand up
for the American Indians?
for those on the reservations?
F
Are you gonna stand up?
Dm
C
Yeah.
Dm
C
let's stand up for Malcolm X,
Martin Luther King,
C
let's stand up for Marcus Garbus,
Nat Turner,
C
and let us all stand up
F
for the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
for truth and justice?
C
G
Are you gonna stand up
so that we all can have peace?
and everybody should be free?
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